The current high school entrance examination and college entrance examination are still in mid-July.
Ma Liuni has rarely gone to school since May Day. The mushroom house has been built, and she has to help her aunt move things over there. She also has to tidy up the farm and prepare to build a new chicken coop.
Chen Chunhua and Lin Yulan both felt that she didn't need to come over now, and she had to finish reading in the last two months anyway!
Liu Ni said confidently, "I'm not the only one. Many of my classmates felt that they would not be able to get into high school, or even if they did, they would not be able to get into college, so they all ran back home."
"The teachers don't care whether we go or not. They're just reviewing the material, and since we don't have an exam, it's fine if we don't go."
Lin Yulan frowned and looked at her, "Then don't you want to give it a try, just in case you can pass the exam?"
She thought that as long as Liu Ni could get into high school, she would pay for the tuition! She was making money now!
Liu Ni shook her head. "No. I really don't have that intention."
Chen Chunhua neither supported nor objected. After all, Liu Ni had already discussed this matter with her. These days, many children stop studying after graduating from junior high school because they feel they have no hope of passing the college entrance examination and don't want to waste those years.
"After the chicken coop is built, I plan to go to Shanghai. Do you want to go?" Chen Chunhua asked Liu Ni.
"Why are you going to Shanghai?" Lin Yulan looked at her in surprise, forgetting the words she had just said to persuade her daughter to make progress. "Just the two of you? Isn't it unsafe?"
In fact, Chen Chunhua had rarely traveled far. She didn't even know how to buy a train ticket, so it was impossible for her to take Liu Ni out alone.
"I've told Guoqing that he will apply to contact the clients there and go with us. He will also buy the train tickets for us."
"Oh, that's good." Lin Yulan breathed a sigh of relief.
"Are we going to buy chicks and feed?" Liu Ni exclaimed in surprise. When she and her aunt were studying breeding magazines together, they had discussed that this batch of chickens would have to be replaced later.
The farm chickens they raise now are actually traditional Yue chickens, which are both meat and egg-producing. They are lively and active and like to find live food for themselves, making them very suitable for free-range farming in rural areas.
This kind of chicken became the most popular as people's living conditions improved and they began to pursue healthier taste.
But now, in this era when material conditions are still scarce, whether from the perspective of operators or consumers, it takes half a year to raise chickens before they can lay eggs, and the fat content of chicken is lower than that of ordinary chickens, so it is not suitable for large-scale breeding.
The chickens eat more and more, and when you raise too many, there won’t be enough corn and millet for them to eat, so you still have to buy feed in the end.
The feed clearly states the so-called crude protein, available phosphorus, multiple vitamins and other substances, which is definitely more professional than what they feed randomly in the dark.
After several months of discussion, the two gave up the white Leghorn chicken they originally wanted.
This kind of chicken is indeed more common in the north. I heard that every household in the rural areas of northern Shaanxi has a few. They eat little, reproduce a lot, and fly high.
But there are not many of them raised in the south, especially the large-scale breeding chicken farms in the south do not raise this kind of chicken.
Chicks can be found on the roadside, one or two at a time, but for professional large-scale breeding like Chen Chunhua, who may want to buy 1,000 chicks at a time, she can only go to a state-owned breeding farm.
It takes a long time to get the chickens to Sihe Village! Transportation today is nothing compared to what it was then. What used to take an hour on the highway now takes three hours on a shaky dirt road.
Chicks die easily. If you go to the north to buy chickens, half of them will die halfway through the journey. So you can only find them nearby.
What's closer?
The Ross chickens from the breeding farm in the suburbs of Shanghai lay many eggs, have good meat quality, are highly resistant to disease and have a high survival rate.
It was not until the end of 1981 that Shanghai introduced the original breed of chickens from the UK. Up to now, the farms, communes and large professional households in the suburbs of the provincial capital also import Ross chickens from Shanghai.
There are also Jiangshan's white-haired black-bone chicken and white-eared silver chicken, which are both meat and egg-producing.
The white-feathered black-bone chicken is also used medicinally and is the main ingredient in Wuji Baifeng Pills. The eggs laid by the white-eared silver chicken have large, red yolks and are said to be very popular in Hong Kong and Macau.
Some of this information was heard by Liu Ni from her teacher at night school, and some was read by Chen Chunhua from animal husbandry magazines.
Poor Comrade Chen Chunhua is now old. She has grown from an illiterate person who felt dizzy at the sight of words to an ambitious middle-aged person who can finish reading a professional journal carefully without looking up a dictionary.
Liu Ni's idea is to buy a little of each, try them out, and then develop the one that makes more money.
Chen Chunhua felt that this was too complicated, so it would be better to just raise one.
Moreover, this year their county, following the example of the provincial capital, had also introduced some encouraging policies. For farmers like them, for every kilogram of eggs sold, they would receive two kilograms of affordable feed.
Although the money paid to the government is certainly less than the retail price, the accumulation of every two kilograms of feed can save a considerable amount of money.
If a chick is raised at a rate of 90% or more, a reward of 5 cents will be given for each chick. If the rate is above 85%, a reward of 2 cents will be given.
Chicken farmers who sell more than 5,000 kilograms of eggs can also be rewarded with a Shanghai-licensed bicycle ticket.
They even introduced price quotes for chicken farming loans and various technical contracting services. Of course, Chen Chunhua didn't need this.
But those rewards! She felt she could do it! Especially the bicycle ticket! Even if the family didn’t ride it! It would still make money if she sold it!
Hold on to the government! The difference between the price and retail price can be made up, or even more!
They finally chose to go to Shanghai to buy Ross chicken.
One reason is that the breeding requirements for black-bone chickens are higher, and the other is that the chickens introduced in the Zhejiang Animal Husbandry Magazine are all Ross chickens, and the experience shared is also about Ross chickens.
If you really can't raise it well, go to the provincial capital to find an expert who is definitely more familiar with Ross chickens.
At that time, Chen Chunhua followed the advertisement in the magazine and went to Lin Guoqing's factory to make a phone call.
The breeding chicken farm is said to be in Shanghai, but it is actually in the suburbs of Shanghai. After the train arrives at Shanghai Station, you have to take the bus. After getting off the bus, you will probably have to find a way to take another bus, or it will take a long time.
But there was no electronic payment back then, so the only options were wire transfers or mailings.
It is impossible to ask people to pay for the chickens without even seeing them. Shen Chunhua has to go there and see if the chicken breed is good. If it is, she will spend money to purchase it.
After noting the address, I put this matter on the agenda.
Liu Ni was extremely excited.
She had only been to neighboring Su County with her third sister when she was little, and that was the farthest she had ever been. Now she was going to Shanghai! That was Shanghai!
The little girl's eyes were so bright that they were blinding.
If possible, she really wants to build the chicken coop tomorrow and go to Shanghai the day after tomorrow!
Oh, no, it's serious business! !
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I didn’t even research journal articles when I wrote my thesis…
I feel incredibly strong right now! If I can't continue writing novels, I'll just go out and rent some land and raise chickens! ?(?????)?
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